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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8049935 | Optical scanner with non-redundant overwriting An optical scanning device is provided which comprises a laser array which emits laser beams including a number of beams (1, 2, . . . , n) writing a swath of rasters having a laser scanning section which, when an interlaced scanning period i, is set to a natural num... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7433065 | Image forming device consumable monitoring methods, consumable monitoring systems and image forming devices Image forming device consumable monitoring methods, consumable monitoring systems and image forming devices are described. According to one aspect, an image forming device consumable monitoring method includes storing information regarding a plurality of consumables... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7365889 | System and method for transparency optimization One embodiment pertains to analyzing a document that is to be printed on a transparency, determining whether the document formatting is optimized for transparency printing, and alerting a user if the document formatting is not optimized for transparency printing. An... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7339686 | System and method for intelligent print quality selection A system and method are provided for intelligently selecting a print quality setting. Print quality selection logic automatically selects one of a plurality of print quality settings based on data relating to document content, prior print setting selections, user in... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327483 | Document reading device A document reading device is provided with a reading unit for reading a document and generating image data corresponding to an image formed on the document. The image data is stored in an external memory that is detachably attached to a slot of the device. The opera... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7315404 | Monitoring job status for grouped print jobs When a group print job is to be processed, a print application issues a grouping start instruction to a print system client first. The respective print jobs are then transmitted to a spooler. The print system client extracts the print jobs and sends them to a printe... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7301661 | Communication terminal device and method of controlling same A communication terminal device which comprises an SIP call control unit that performs call control by using an SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), a recognition unit that recognizes that a calling has become an error according to a response signal sent back from a c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7193688 | Image forming device capable of reproducing sound, and content reproducing method An image forming device includes a printer engine, a display unit, and a sound reproducing unit. The image forming device receives a list of contents from a content distributing device, and has the display unit display the content list. From the content list display... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7072054 | Security of incomplete/pending jobs after power loss An apparatus and method for erasing incomplete and/or pending jobs from a marking device's non-volatile memory after a power loss. A threshold power loss duration can be selected, as can type of job(s) to be erased and whether users should be notified of erasure. | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072080 | Information processor An information processor includes a CPU that calculates various kinds of data, a clock circuit that measures time independently of the CPU, an operational condition switching circuit that makes the CPU switch between sleep and active conditions according to predeter... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7019852 | Image forming apparatus capable of image formation in a plurality of modes A user-friendly, image forming apparatus capable of reducing operation errors by users provides a permission to change a print mode to the staple print mode when the device is placed in the original mixed mode and the image data of originals all have a same length i... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6956678 | Control system and units removably attachable to the same A control system having device units removably attachable to a control device arranged to optimize the allocation and distribution of electric power to the device units and also displays of varied kinds. For this purpose, each device unit of the system includes a co... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6574013 | Facsimile machine with paper sensor for stacker A facsimile machine has a stacker to which printed pages are delivered, and a paper sensor that senses whether the stacker is empty. The facsimile machine clears an internal page count to zero when the stacker is empty, increments the page count as each p... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6545774 | Method of controlling the management of the activity of facsimile having no back up battery A method of controlling the management of the activity of facsimile having no backup battery capable of controlling the management of transmitting or receiving activity of facsimile with a nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) without using a static RAM or a backup bat... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6396410 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a display block made up of two pairs of lamp units of different colors alternating with each other. The display block has its top divided into four rectangles by a cross; nearby rectangles are different in color from ea... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6320673 | Image forming and color correcting system Disclosed is an image forming and color correcting system. The system includes an image forming apparatus and a method for correcting halftone color in an image forming apparatus. The apparatus includes an image reading unit, an image forming unit and a p... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6304342 | Image-processing apparatus equipped with recording-material manual-feeding mechanism and control method for the apparatus An image-processing apparatus and a control method for this apparatus. Image data is received through a communication section and is recorded by a recording section onto a recording material fed from a manual-feeding tray. Recording materials of various s... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6144725 | Data radio communication apparatus and system A radio communication apparatus includes a radio communication device for performing data communication via a radio network, and a wire communication device for performing data communication via a wire network. The radio communication device performs data... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6118551 | Technique for informing calling party of no-paper state during reception of image data by facsimile machine A technique for informing a calling party of a no-paper state while a facsimile machine receives image data. If no paper is sensed while the facsimile machine receives image data, a call reservation is made. If the calling party responds to the call reser... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5959741 | Facsimile apparatus for processing received image data according to sub-address signal A facsimile apparatus receives and stores image data, receives a sub-address signal, and processes the stored image data using pre-stored processing corresponding to the received sub-address signal.... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5784173 | Image processing apparatus having image filing function A target image to be retrieved and a processing mode of the target image are stored in a magneto-optic disk as a job in a job file by using a computer which is independent of an image processing apparatus. The magneto-optic disk is set into the image proc... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5760927 | Color image reproduction apparatus for reproducing retained stored images after elimination of printer trouble An image processing apparatus reads an image and synthesizes it with another, broadcast standardized image signal supplied from outside the apparatus and stored in a memory provided in the apparatus.... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5726777 | Image apparatus and method for selective color transmission based on stored function information An image transmitting apparatus includes a transmitter capable of transmitting color image information and a memory that stores addresses of a plurality of receiving sides together with respective information indicating, for each stored address, whether t... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5619344 | Image processing apparatus for recording a plurality of sets of image data A facsimile apparatus having a multi-output recording mode for producing a plurality of sets of output record of the received data. The multi-output recording mode is selectively prohibited when the number of the recording paper sheets remaining in the fa... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5581367 | Facsimile apparatus having environmental condition sensor A facsimile apparatus, which receives image information and records the information on a paper sheet, features a device for recording received image information, a storing device for storing received information and an environmental condition detecting de... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5510907 | Facsimile apparatus having urgency message transmission function A facsimile apparatus includes: a memory unit for storing subscriber number records indicating destination stations for urgency message transmission, and for storing voice and image urgency message records respectively indicating voice and image urgency m... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5508819 | Data transmitting apparatus A data communication apparatus comprises an input unit to input transmission data; a memory to store additional information to be transmitted together with the transmission data by which was input from the input unit; a prohibiting unit to prohibit the tr... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5412485 | Image processing apparatus capable of processing images on both side original An image processing apparatus includes a reading section for reading images on one side and the other side of an original, a mode selecting section for selecting one of one side mode and two side mode, the one side mode being adapted to process an image o... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5355230 | Facsimile apparatus and facsimile system A facsimile and a facsimile system are connected to an inside bus of an ISDN (integrated services digital network). When trouble, such as no toner, jam, no paper or the like, has occurred in a recording unit of a first facsimile apparatus on the inside bu... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5343306 | Facsimile machine using cut sheets of paper of multiple sizes In a facsimile machine printing received image data on cut sheets that are loaded, cut sheets of different sizes being selectively and exchangeably loaded, a page length determining means, such as a scan line counter, determines the length of each page of... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5333062 | Apparatus for instructing the handling of abnormalities and misoperations in a facsimile device An abnormality-handling instructing apparatus for use in a facsimile machine where the operator is able to be properly noticed an abnormality so that an appropriate handling can be effected to the abnormality. The apparatus comprises memory for storing ab... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5321741 | Facsimile apparatus for determining communication failure An automatic dial device transmits a dial signal to a telephone line. A facsimile signal receiver serves to receive a response facsimile signal from the telephone line. An image signal is transmitted from an image data store unit to the telephone line in ... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5294999 | Method and apparatus for recording a plurality of facsimile communication results on paper A facsimile apparatus which produces no margin on a recording paper in the communication control recording. The predetermine number according to the size of the recording paper used is set and the communication results are recorded on a recording paper wh... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5295182 | Facsimile device having self-diagnostic function and maintenance and control method thereof Disclosed is a facsimile device and a maintenance and control method thereof, which enable a reduction in time load and economic load of users and that of a maintenance and control station with respect to maintenance and control of the facsimile device. T... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5270830 | Facsimile transmission system A facsimile transmission system is applied a facsimile machine which has a store-and-forward mode in which image data related to one or a plurality of document pages are read by a reading part and temporarily stored in a memory part and thereafter transmi... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5267048 | Apparatus having a function to store received data in an unloadable external storage medium An image communication apparatus stores received image data in a first memory, such as its hard disk drive, and transfers the image data stored in the first memory to a second, unloadable memory, such as a floppy disk, that may be unloaded to or unloaded ... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5257119 | Image processing apparatus which adds apparatus identification data to images An image processing apparatus previously stores information on particular kinds of image, determines the degree of similarity between an input full-color image signal and the information on particular kinds of image, controls conditions for addition of a ... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5227894 | Image transmission apparatus with sheet number checking An image transmission apparatus for transmitting image data of document sheets stored in an image memory includes a manual entry device entering the number of document sheets. A counter counts the number of pages of document image stored in the image memo... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5196947 | Image communication apparatus An image communication apparatus includes a data memory for storing image data in a detachable storage medium or reading out image data from the storage medium, a detection unit for detecting an attach/detach state of the storage medium, a transmission un... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5061916 | Event driven remote graphical reporting of building automation system parameters A system and method for reporting of alarms (or other conditions) to a remote location, in a building automation system. The alarm is reported in graphical format which shows not only the information related directly to the alarm, but also additional info... | 10/29/1991 |
